Port Operations
Italian shipping company Premuda’s managing director resigns
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 28, 2018 – Stefano Rosina will leave the position of managing director of Italian shipowning company Premuda SpA to...
Italy’s Senate approves establishment of 16th port authority
Catania, Italy (PortSEurope) November 28, 2018 – Italy’s Senate has approved the establishment of the country’s 16th port authority, senator...
Spain’s Boluda names director of towage, tankers, shipping divisions
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) November 28, 2018 – Spanish company Boluda Corporación MarÃtima has appointed Javier Climent Melián as...
AutoEuropa to use Leixões port as alternative to Setúbal for car exports
Leixões, Portugal (PortSEurope) November 28, 2018 – Portuguese automotive assembly plant operator AutoEuropa Automóveis, Lda., part of Volkswagen...
Gijón-Nantes MoS to be launched by 2021
Las Palmas, Spain (PortSEurope) November 28, 2018 – Gijón port expects the Gijón-Nantes Motorway of the Sea (MoS) to be launched at the end of 2020 or...
UK: Major disruption at ports is ‘real prospect’ in no-deal Brexit
UK Parliament News – Commons Select Committee 28 November 2018 PAC concerned by slow progress and poor communication around Project Brock Ability of...
Civitavecchia port container dispute suspended until June
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Francesco Maria di Majo, President of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno...
NCSP Group’s consolidated cargo turnover for January-September totaled 105.25 million tons
Novorossiysk, Russia (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – NCSP Group has reported that consolidated cargo turnover of the Group’s terminals for...
Costa Crociere and the Food Bank start project to distribute unserved foods between NGOs in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Cruise ship company Costa Crociere and the Food Bank has started a project to distribute unserved...
Luka Koper revenue up 6% in Jan-Sep 2018
Koper, Slovenia (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – In the first nine months of this year, the Luka Koper Group generated €168 million ($189.81 million)...
Barcelona port sees traffic up 11% in October 2018
Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – In the first 10 months of 2018 the port of Barcelona handled total traffic of 56.6 million of tonnes...
AdSP Civitavecchia joins business mission to Singapore
Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP –...
European Parliament closes probe into bulk handling at Alicante port
Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – The European Parliament has closed the investigation opened in August of 2017 into the loading and...
Taranto’s Coast Guard seizes port area
Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Taranto’s Coast Guard has seized a port area of 2,000 m², operated by a company with registered...
Spain’s Boluda Lines attracts interest during International Fair of Cape Verde (FIC)
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Boluda Lines, the shipping division of Boluda Corporación MarÃtima, has expressed its satisfaction with...
STX France completes shipyard expansion in Saint-Nazaire
Nantes St-Nazaire, France (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – French shipbuilder STX France has completed a project for the expansion of the area dedicated...
Italy’s Mercitalia launches rail freight line linking Verona to Bari
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Italian freight railway operator Mercitalia Intermodal has launched a service to connect...
MSC acquires stake in Trieste cruise terminal operator
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 –Â MSC Cruises has acquired a significant interest in Trieste Adriatic Marine Initiatives Stl (TAMI), a...
Fincantieri starts construction of biggest cruise ship ever built in Italy
Monfalcone, Italy (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri SpA has started the construction of the MSC Seashore cruise ship of MSC...
Spain’s Interportuario Compensation Fund will distribute €52.5 million among 28 port authorities in 2019
Madrid, Spain (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – The distribution committee of the Interportuarial Compensation Fund (Fondo de Compensación...